Pelosi Reluctantly Picks Her Team for House Benghazi Probe
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday reluctantly picked her team for a GOP-led Benghazi investigative committee, saying that Democrats’ participation was the only way to assure Americans of a “fair process.”
Pelosi appointed five fellow Democrats to the 12-member House select committee on Benghazi, including Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings as the ranking member of the panel.
“We’ve already been there,” Pelosi said in naming the members, continuing to voice concerns about the probe while also ending weeks of speculation about whether her party would participate.
“Eight reviews have been conducted in the House and Senate, 25,000 documents released, millions of taxpayer dollars spent. It was not necessary to put the families or our country through this partisan exercise once again,” the California Democrat continued. “I could have argued either way.”
Cummings is also the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and is known to publicly spar with the chairman of that committee, GOP Rep. Darrell Issa. Pelosi also named Washington Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee; California Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the House Committee on Appropriations; California Rep. Linda Sanchez, a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means; and Illinois Rep. Tammy Duckworth, a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Photo Credit: AP / Jacquelyn MartinNancy Pelosi names five Democrats to Benghazi panel
By Susan Ferrechio.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calf., has named five Democrats to serve on a select panel that will investigate the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Pelosi made the decision to appoint members after meeting Wednesday with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, about the terms of how the panel will operate.
Pelosi has tapped Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who now serves as the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has held several hearings examining the Benghazi attack.
Pelosi also named Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., who is the House Armed Services Committee ranking member, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Calif., and Rep. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., an injured war veteran who serves on both the Armed Services and House Oversight panels.
Schiff previously argued Democrats should boycott the committee, telling “Fox News Sunday” it would be a “colossal waste of time.”
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